South side of the stoa.


A notice by the Italian archaeological association indicates that an inscription along the architrave of the east side of the agora allows for dating it to between 136 and 138 AD: two citizens, Dionysus son of Theophilus and Hierocles son of Argeus offered the monument to Artemis Astias, the titular divinity of the city as well as to the deified Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and “” the very sweet homeland of Iasos”, all at their own expense. The south stoa connected various public buildings (such as the bouleuterion). The east stoa (and perhaps the west one too) was a simple portico connecting to for instance the man in charge of the agora and a small heroon.